Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting vs. Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS)

The tool is excellent when you need to provide all the details about your clients, yet hide their identity - all while maintaining the referential integrity of the data (so child-records of the masked parent record and maintain the same fake ID of the parent).

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Solix EDMS is the recognized global provider of enterprise data management solutions for information lifecycle management and compliance. It helps data migration for [application] sunsetting and upgrades, reduce storage, and secures sensitive data. Solix is considered a pioneer in providing a complete infrastructure platform to manage data across [applications], e-mail, and documents in an enterprise.

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• It offers several ways in which you can mask your data; for example, you can choose to replace all names with "real fake names", or choose to replace all SSNs with existing SSNs, but randomly assigned. You control the algorithm.
• It works on non-Oracle databases as well (in our case, we use it for both Oracle and SQL/Server).
• The overhead is minimal (it doesn't take long to run, and it doesn't consume too many system resources.

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• Automates the process for archiving and purging of historical data.
• Helps towards greater business agility without spending a fortune on servers and storage.
• It is the foundation for E-Discovery through long-term data retention, data masking, database audit, and enterprise search.

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• The learning curve was not trivial - but we got through it.
• Cost - this product is not cheap.

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• Still some minor upgrade on indexes of records.
• It was a bit tough to get started so user onboarding could be improved.

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We also looked at Delphix: the tool was quite powerful, easy to use, and competitive from a cost standpoint. However, since our entire data warehouse environment is built on the Oracle technology stack, it made sense to us to use the Oracle product here, as it integrates very well with other Oracle database and ETL products.

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At the core of Solix EDMS is the Solix Enterprise Metadata Manager which manages multiple applications metadata for all data types independent of the hardware platforms. By implementing Solix, companies will keep data growth in check and lower storage costs, and improve overall system and reporting performance.

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• We have many compliance regulations we need to adhere to. Without this tool, we were always taking a risk of exposing client information, and get penalized by the State of the Feds (the financial consequences are significant).
• So while the tool doesn't save us money directly, it greatly reduces the risk we had been taking all these years. To some degree, this is much like an insurance policy.
• Given the above, it also allows us to share information with other departments/agencies, in situations where before we simply couldn't take the risk of exposing client information.

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• Helps create rapid database subsets for test and development.
• Benefitted from faster backup and recovery.
• Helped towards greater business agility without spending a fortune on servers and storage.

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